Martin Ferguson

🌟Twilight Sessions are proving especially popular and spaces are filling fast! DM/website www.teach-lead.com🌟

CPD offer:
✨Bespoke CPD designed around your sch priorities
🗂️Action planning and implementation for effective sch development
🎯Specialist seminars in SEND, literacy, and adaptive teaching

📚Workload Hack: In my Teach-Lead.com sessions I’ve modelled AI(CoPilot) for curating resources. Trialling a progression model for formative assess:
MCQs▶️MatchUps▶️Cloze▶️ Comprehension▶️Stems▶️Essay
So far, working well! Inspired by @daisychristo.bsky.social 'Making Good Progress'

Kicked things off with Plath’s “You’re” by doing a quick word assoc on the very first word of the poem.

🗣️ SEND Tip: jot down each contribution with pupils’ initials. Shifted the lesson - suddenly everyone wanted to chip in. Images also drove discussion & debate in small group.

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If you aim to do one thing this year that will enhance your practice and provide moments of reflection, then sign up to @xpateducator.bsky.social DistillED - loaded with research, strategies and bitesize information - great for dept meetings on T&L or just a refresh! newsletter.jamieleeclark.com

📚Excited to be visiting this Friday (22nd Aug) to deliver a CPD session. Looking forward to meeting the staff and celebrating their achievement of the Research Mark Plus Kitemark from the @CharteredColl 👏📚

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I attended the TransformEd Strategic Review of NI Curriculum by @lucy_crehan today — bold ideas and a shared commitment to shaping a better future for every learner through equity and opportunity. Very keen to see how this is shaped and implemented. #EducationMatters
@Education_NI @Ed_Authority

Using Knowledge Organisers: Personal Writing & Literary Comparative Unit 4 is quite a tricky wee paper due to the demands placed on pupils to partake in ‘task switching’ (great read if you are interested in knowing more). The shifting of approaches from…

📢This week’s blog:
Using A3 Knowledge Organisers for GCSE Creative/Personal Writing and Literary Comparatives - links to research and resources are included. #EnglishGCSE #SeeOneDoOneTeachOne

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📚 Just arrived yesterday!
@xpateducator.bsky.social "One Pagers Vol 2"
In the fast-paced school & edu environment, this book offers great clarity and is a cornerstone for school improvement - grateful to have been included in this book - fantastic work by Jamie once again! 👍🏻
Good luck with it! 😊

Using Knowledge Organisers: Persuasive and Non-Fiction Texts In this blog, I’ll share some last-minute practical tips for using Knowledge Organisers (KOs) for Unit 1. Over the years, I’ve printed and distributed these for GCSE classes across the …

📢This week’s blog:
Using Knowledge Organisers for GCSE Persuasive Writing and Non-Fiction Texts.

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📢🚨Updated KO for @CCEA_info English Lang U1
Tried and tested revision scaffolds, mnemonics and writing stems that are excellent for short and focused revision tasks. Pupils love them and helps to change the 'cannot revise for English' mindset.

📚Delighted to hear colleagues have recently bought my book.
It is packed with lesson ideas, model examples and oracy based exercises and scripts for GCSE.
See One Do One Teach One
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Hope you find this wee book #SODOTO useful! 😊

🗓️ #LitdriveCPD25 🗓️

Litdrive's national conference at Aston University is happening tomorrow! Arrive by 9am with our welcome talk starting at 9.30am. Let us know if you are coming along! 🐝

#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish

Everything in Moderation: How can we harness the power of Standardisation & Moderation? The Rule of Saint Benedict, written around 530 AD, advises that “all things be done with moderation,” ensuring that monks avoided extreme asceticism and maintained a sustainable lifesty…

New Blog Post Out Now! www.teach-lead.com
📢 Standardisation and Moderation 🚨 👉Free Resources Included✍️

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Getting Out of the Way Much of my adult identity was bound up in being a teacher. For over 20 years I had lived my life by bells and terms and assessment deadlines. Most of my friends were teachers (that is still the cas…

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@greeborunner.bsky.social explores why you sometimes just need to get out of teachers' way...

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Really excited about the upcoming LitDrive event in Birmingham next Saturday!
One Week To Go!
#LitDrive25 #TeamEnglish

🚨One Pagers: Volume 2🚨
Another superb title from Jamie Clark that needs to be in every CPD library. This is the second installment of the highly rated and highly successful 'One Pagers' series.

Good luck, Jamie! 👍 #OnePagers #JamieClark

Pre order here: amzn.eu/d/4q5qdoz
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📚📖 CPD Courses Available 📖📚
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Bespoke CPD Available!
From Action Planning and Formative Assessment to Scaffolding for Success and Literacy Across the Curriculum - there are seminars available for whole staff training or departmental collaboration.

Two very important, ambitious and aspirational docs - there is lots of good will, talent and skill across the edu sys in NI. What is evident is our sys needs flex & high quality training.
We also need to address selection if we are to truly make long lasting changes & tackle social mobility.

Incredible night @gohbelfast to watch family friend, Aidan Halfpenny, perform as Marius Pontmercy. The cast & production were superb. We especially loved hearing the Belfast brogue and one liners in there too! Lovely touch.
Congratulations to all involved.
#LesMiserableBelfast🌹
#LetThePeopleSing

Scaffolding GCSE and A Level.
Slides finalised and ready to go for @LitdriveUK Conference @AstonUniversity Birmingham! Can't wait to take part in this event and meet the other speakers too. Schedule is packed full of brilliant presenters and English experts. #LitDriveCPD2025 👏

Happy to share that I've successfully achieved the Development of Teaching Practice Award (Leadership) from Chartered College of Teaching with support from the Education Authority (Northern Ireland) 🙌

Would highly recommend the courses on offer! #CharteredCollege

🚨 @litdrive.bsky.social🚨
Cannot wait to take part in LitDrive Conference. The lineup is excellent and it is a real opportunity to meet practitioners and experts, and magpie the best practice out there! Well done to the organisers 👏

Tickets available here:
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Thinking, Talking and Writing: Starters, Stems and Scaffolds. The content emphasizes the significance of language and communication in education, particularly in enhancing pupils’ potential. It highlights various strategies such as using scaffolds, info…

🚨 My New Blog Is Out! 📚
Thinking, Talking and Writing:
Using Starters and Stems
This blog features ways to support writing and structure talk. There are some FREE support resources for class teachers too 😊

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Sunday Reading 📚

Thanks @johncattedu.bsky.social for @rethinkingjames.bsky.social great book for making effective & sustainable change. This book helps focus minds & energy. Stakes are too high & poor implementation is costly for all involved. This book offers clear & detailed roadmaps for success. Congrats James👍

Breaking Barriers: Effective Comprehension Strategies for SEND & Reluctant Readers. The content describes the author’s experience working with pupils with SEND and mental health needs, emphasizing diverse learning strategies and assessments to address comprehension gaps. The…

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Breaking Barriers: Effective Comprehension Strategies for SEND and Reluctant Readers. The content describes the author’s experience working with pupils with SEND and mental health needs, emphasizing diverse learning strategies and assessments to address comprehension gaps. The…

🚨New Blog Post Is Out! 📚
Breaking Barriers:
Effective Comprehension Strategies for SEND and Reluctant Readers.
(Downloadable resource included😊)
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Reading Between the Lines: SEND & Tackling Underachievement In Northern Ireland, 89% of young people with Special Educational Needs (SEN) attended mainstream schools in 2023/24, with significant rises in those requiring additional support. Chronic underfund…

🚨New Post:
The inability to read and engage means the picture becomes small, narrow, and rather bleak. But remember, we have the capacity to develop this snapshot into a vibrant, full-colour image of understanding and participation. We just need to sharpen the focus."

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Reading Between the Lines: SEND & Tackling Underachievement In Northern Ireland, 89% of young people with Special Educational Needs (SEN) attended mainstream schools in 2023/24, with significant rises in those requiring additional support. Chronic underfund…

📖📚 My latest Teach-Lead
blog post is now live:

"Reading Between the Lines - SEND and Tackling Underachievement"

Curious about the SEND landscape in NI?
Interested in addressing literacy challenges and underachievement on a regional scale?
teach-lead.com/2025/01/13/r...

Reading Between the Lines: SEND & Tackling Underachievement In Northern Ireland, 89% of young people with Special Educational Needs (SEN) attended mainstream schools in 2023/24, with significant rises in those requiring additional support. Chronic underfund…

📖📚 My latest Teach-Lead
blog post is now live:

"Reading Between the Lines - SEND and Tackling Underachievement"

Curious about the SEND landscape in NI?
Interested in addressing literacy challenges and underachievement on a regional scale?
teach-lead.com/2025/01/13/r...